In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:28:02 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Storms is predicting that the ash with NiH is deuterium.
In order to produce D you need an either n+p or p+p. The former implies a WL reaction. The latter an f/H reaction. If f/H is involved then is unlikely to be much D remaining because the reactions consuming D (such as p+D => He3) are faster than the p+p reaction by many orders of magnitude. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html